[lug] RH X for S3V

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Michael Deck
> When I fire up a console in KDE, it complains about the absence of a RENDER 
> extension and then shows me *two* consoles, one has the complaint and the 
> other is usable. No big deal but annoying. I looked around on Google-groups 
> and it looks like the problem might be that my S3VIRGE card isn't suppored in 
> XFree86-4.0.3 which is what the KRUD install contains. 
> 
> I don't need fancy bells and whistles -- this is very old graphics hardware 
> -- so I was wondering what's the best way to go back to Xfree86-3.3.x which 
> does contain S3V support. I don't find the RPMs on the KRUD disk. They do 
> appear to be part of a stock 6.2 install. 

You don't need to go back to 3.3.x.  If you do, it won't get rid of the
missing RENDER extension since that extension is only available to the 4.x
series of X servers.  The RENDER extension is what helps KDE provide
anti-aliased fonts and displays.  The extension is built into the X server,
if it's there at all.  KDE just makes use of it.

I'd say if the X environment comes up with just this one message, you're
fine.  It's possible the S3Virge is supported under 4.x the same way it was
under 3.3.x, it just (still) doesn't have hardware acceleration.

There is probably a way to start KDE without using the RENDER extension,
though I don't know what it is.  
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